Ryan Helfenbein

The dedication page of this book says it in three sentences.

Charlie Kirk was a friend.

He asked me to build a SCAN, the Saving Civilization Action Network, as a project in the economic world directly focused on the four horsemen.

That mission became the inspiration for this book.

You're finishing his sentence.

The third idea is the Economic Justice Board at economicjusticeboard.com.

The idea came from Charlie and from our friend Ryan Helfenbein at Liberty University, a permanent advisory voice at the presidential level that asks one question of every major economic decision.

Does this make America more affordable and more just for the next generation? It runs on a framework we call ARC.

Um, however, there are some elements of wisdom that we need to take into account.

And so I want to welcome in, uh, Ryan Helfenbein, who's the vice president of communications at Liberty University and the executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center.

And Ryan, you know, one of, um, one of the other issues, um, that, that we need to address with, uh, a, a potential live stream is not just the ability of, uh, of citizens to then witness this public execution, um, and it's being done, you know, for, in the interests of justice on our behalf, as Orrin McIntyre argued in the first segment.

But the ability of live stream, it, it allows to then replay it over and over and over again, to clip it, to, you know, I mean, to, to set it to music.

Together we can save lives, one heartbeat at a time.

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Welcome back, and I'm still with my-- here with my special guest, Ryan Helfenbein, who's the vice president of communications at Liberty University.

And, uh, th- speaking of the death penalty and just the removal of society, uh, in 2026 and, you know, kind of our, our modernization of the concept and the reality of death, um, this was a really, frankly, disturbing article in The Economist, uh, that I saw on social media.

All right.

Thank you so much, Ryan Helfenbein, executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center.

Great to have you.

Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch.

In just a moment, we're going to have our friend Rod Martin on the program.

And after that, we're going to be talking to our friend Ryan Helfenbein of Liberty University.

I will be there tomorrow at Liberty University, speaking at the convocation, 10,000 students, unbelievable signing books.

Afterward, I'll be at the CEO forum in the evening, signing books after that.

We prefer the crime and drug abuse and homelessness.

We prefer that somehow that reflects our values.

Having people, uh, sleeping in their own feces and squalor we prefer that because we don't want your help federal government we don't want your fascist help president trump uh in in improving our situation we're in love with the misery this is what we're dealing with on the left it's madness ladies and gentlemen you have to just understand it's madness and it's evil uh and that's what we're dealing with we just got a couple minutes before we go to ryan helfenbein but i want to ask you rod um What happened on that plane the other day? Again, more terrorism, more Muslim lunacy.

We have a radicalized terrorist movement.

He says, "Should pastors engage in the political process? Absolutely, they should, because there are many political issues that are at their heart theological issues and moral issues that strike at the very center of what we believe to be true and what we believe people need to know in order to flourish personally and as a culture." He's absolutely right, and I'm really grateful to see, uh, that he is, he is stepping up and calling, uh, Christians to step up.

So let's welcome in Ryan Helfenbein, who is the vice president of communications and public engagement at Liberty University.

And, um, Ryan, it, this seems like such an obvious message for 2026.

Yeah, it certainly does, and when you consider the significance of what this means, I mean, from the platform of the Southern Baptist Convention, uh, you can go back decades, and you look at men like Adrian Rogers or, uh, men like W.A. Criswell or Charles Stanley, and, and it would make sense, uh, that men like that back then, uh, would speak about these issues.